{"id":70661,"date":"2026-04-02T06:31:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/workers-carved-the-largest-modern-hindu-temple-in-the-west-now-some-have-incurable-lung-disease\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T06:31:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:31:33","slug":"workers-carved-the-largest-modern-hindu-temple-in-the-west-now-some-have-incurable-lung-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/workers-carved-the-largest-modern-hindu-temple-in-the-west-now-some-have-incurable-lung-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers carved the largest modern Hindu temple in the west. Now, some have incurable lung disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workers allege abuse, visa fraud and medical neglect during the New Jersey temple\u2019s construction \u2013 and say two died from lung disease caused by inhaling silica dust<\/p>\n<p>In the center of the suburban town of Robbinsville, New Jersey, sits the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/arts\/largest-hindu-temple-outside-india-in-the-modern-era-opens-in-central-new-jersey\">largest modern<\/a> Hindu mandir outside of India.<\/p>\n<p>What visitors from around the world see is a breathtaking display of craftsmanship \u2013 hand-carved stone from Rajasthan assembled across a sprawling 185-acre complex. The temple has gone viral on social media for its intricate designs, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/news\/2023\/10\/06\/baps-hindu-temple-nj-world-largest-open-robbinsville\/70911837007\/\">took millions of hours<\/a> to complete. Baps Swaminarayan Akshardham, the religious organization behind the site, has built similar temples across the globe. But some workers say these monumental structures came at a high cost.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/02\/new-jersey-hindu-temple-lung-disease\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers allege abuse, visa fraud and medical neglect during the New Jersey temple\u2019s construction \u2013 and say two died from lung disease caused by inhaling silica dust In the center of the suburban town of Robbinsville, New Jersey, sits the largest modern Hindu mandir outside of India. What visitors from around the world see is &#8230; <a title=\"Workers carved the largest modern Hindu temple in the west. Now, some have incurable lung disease\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/workers-carved-the-largest-modern-hindu-temple-in-the-west-now-some-have-incurable-lung-disease\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Workers carved the largest modern Hindu temple in the west. Now, some have incurable lung disease\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}